Guild Wars 2

I appreciate the response, Jeffrey. My question is, if we’ve never done that particular storyline (such as the Order of Whispers arc for myself) and we have no idea what the next step is, how do we know not to advance or that it would change our path? I was wanting to see the OoW content. It’s really quite great that you had the forethought to allow co-op players to experience the game together, and thank you very much for that! However, a ‘personal story’ being diverted onto another player’s path isn’t very personal anymore at that point.

Additionally, choosing one Order, making an active choice for it, and then being quite literally forced into another, is very upsetting! I had no idea by advancing the step I would be doing this, and it feels very unfair. A simple option to reset my step, or have it done for me, doesn’t feel like an unjust request in this case.

Bumping this. It’s a serious bug, and with the reorganization of the story steps after the living world content, surely this can be fixed? I can’t complete certain achievements this way either, such as To Know the Unknown for the story step An Apple A Day. This bug isn’t okay.

I understand your feelings, Siren. I can’t imagine that this is a complex fix. It surely can’t be more than just a few zeroes and ones in code. I’d be more than happy having a few story steps deleted, even; hell, make me do the whole kitten ed thing over again, if need be.

But I really don’t want to play the character now.. Makes me not want to play at all, in fact. The one aspect of GW2 that rises above other MMOs IS the story, and now I don’t even get what I wanted out of that.

I encountered this exact same bug today (chose Order of Whispers, forced into Durmand Priory). I find it upsetting that there’s no warning that you’re going to be shifting your story to the perspective of the host’s, and for an entire arc. Is there no way to simply change the path of the story? I really would like to experience the Whispers story on my thief, not the Priory’s.